The Pankhurst Centre is a Grade II* listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1974. Villa.
The Pankhurst Centre
- WRENN ID
- stony-rafter-pigeon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1974
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Pankhurst Centre, 62, Nelson Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 849 962
- Coordinates
- 53.46314, -2.22752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pankhurst Centre is a significant building located in Manchester, dating from around 1840 and now altered. It is one of a pair of villas, with No. 60 to the right. The structure is made of red brick, with the left side rendered and mostly scored, and features a hipped slate roof. The building stands two storeys high and has three bays, which were originally symmetrical. The central bay is slightly projected and topped with a pediment. It has a stone plinth and a cornice with modillions.
The central doorway is elliptical-headed and features a set-in doorcase supported by slender Tuscan columns, complete with an entablature and cornice. The door itself is panelled and has a plain fanlight above it. The windows are 4-pane sashed with raised sills and wedge lintels, except for the ground floor right window, which has been altered to include a rectangular bay window, now painted black, with a slated pentice roof.
On the left return wall, there is a two-storey canted bay at the rear, which includes two-centred arched windows adorned with intersecting glazing bars and hoodmoulds. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this building was the home of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst when she founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, which was part of the Suffragette Movement.
Local climate
The Pankhurst Centre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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